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56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 495-JULY 8, 1942 [CHAPTER 495] 651 AN ACT July , 142 Authorizing the Secretary of War to sell and convey to the town of Marmet, West [s. 2109] Virginia, two tracts of land to be used for municipal purposes. [Public Law 660] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the Sec- retary of War is authorized and directed to convey, by quitclaim deed, to the town of Marmet, West Virginia, for the consideration, and subject to the reservations and conditions hereinafter contained, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to two tracts of land situated on the west side of the Great Kanawha River, at lock and dam numbered 2, in Marmet, West Virginia, and described as follows: Tract numbered 1. Beginning at an iron pin in the eastern right- of-way line of the old county road at the southwest corner of the A. J. Baker land (now the property of the United States); thence, from said point of beginning, and running along and with said eastern right-of-way line, north twenty-six degrees fifty-seven minutes west one hundred and seventy-one feet to an iron pin in said line; thence, continuing along and with said eastern right-of-way line, north twenty-three degrees fifty-eight minutes west two hundred and eleven and five one-hundredths feet to an iron pin in said right-of- way line at the southerly corner of the lands of Mary B. Meyers and the northwest corner of the said A. J . Baker land; thence along and with the Meyers-Baker boundary line north sixty degrees thirty- two minutes east one hundred and twenty-one and eighteen one- hundredths feet to an iron pin in the intersection of the westerly right-of-way boundary line of the Charleston Interurban Railroad Company; thence and running with and along the said Charleston Interurban Railroad right-of-way line south twenty-four degrees thirty-two minutes east two hundred and sixteen and thirty one- hundredths feet to an iron pin in said right-of-way line; thence con- tinuing with and along said right-of-way line south twenty-seven degrees east one hundred and sixty-six and fifty-two one-hundredths feet to the point of intersection with the boundary line between the said A. J. Baker land and the H. H. Smallridge and industrial center subdivision of the town of Marmet; thence with and along said Baker-industrial center boundary line south sixty-one degrees twenty- three minutes west one hundred and twenty-three and eighteen one- hundredths feet to the point of beginning, containing one and seven one-hundredths acres, more or less, and designated on United States Army Engineers' plat, "Kanawha River Locks and Dam numbered 2, real estate, United States Engineer Office, Huntington, West Virginia, March 1935 (file numbered 023-L2-11/1)", as "3-B". Tract-numbered 2. Beginning at the point of intersection of the eastern boundary right-of-way line of the Charleston Interurban Railroad Company and the northerly boundary line of the A. J. Baker land, and on the right-of-way line between said Charleston Interurban Railroad and the West Virginia State Highway Route Numbered 61; thence, from said point of beginning, and along and with said Baker line, north sixty degrees thirty-two minutes east four hundred and twenty and sixty-nine one-hundredths feet to a point in said Baker line; thence, south twenty-nine degrees twenty- eight minutes east three hundred and thirty-eight and ninety-one one-hundredths feet to the intersection of the north line of a fifty- foot street (now unnamed); thence, with the line of said street, south sixty-one degrees twenty-three minutes west three hundred and seventy-nine and thirty-nine one-hundredths feet to a point in said street line; thence, north eighty-seven degrees thirteen minutes west Marmet, W. Va. Conveyance of lands to, for municipal pur- poses. Tract numbered 1. Tract numbered 2.